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The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Gordon, Linda
Second Printing
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- Bookseller Inventory #: 002730
- Format/binding: Hard Cover
- Book condition: Fine
- Jacket condition: Fine
- Quantity available: 1
- Illustrator: Photographs
- Edition: Second Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0674360419
- ISBN 13: 9780674360419
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- Place: Cambridge, MA
- Date published: 2000
- Pages: 416
- Size: 6.5 x 9.75 x 1.5 inches
- LCCN: F819.C55G67 1999
- Dewey: 305.8/009791/51
- Weight: 1.84 pounds
- Keywords: CATHOLIC CHURCH UNITED STATES HISTORY ARIZONA ORPHANS ABDUCTION LEGAL MEXICANS IMMIGRANT WORKERS BEST INTERESTS CHILDREN
- Subjects:
Literal;
HISTORY / United States / General;
RELIGION / History;
Book Description
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Pr, 2000. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Photographs. In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. This disturbing and dramatic tale is told to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton-Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild west" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. To the Anglos of Clifton-Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, adn they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. In retelling this little-known piece of American history, the author brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child." 416 pages, including notes, acknowledgments, and an index. One page is dog-eared, and one page has a small wrinkle at the bottom. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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